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Unless I am mistaken, if you say "no requotes" then we must be prepared to expect slippage and slippage of an unknown amount as I guess that we are unable to enter limit orders at the current market price?

Hi CMC You have stated that there are no requotes with your new software. So what happens when the market price changes after I have clicked to trade and before you have processed the order. Believe me, in a fast moving market this can occur. What will happen then, surely you will requote me a...

Yup, thats what the problem is, SLM's servers can't cope with the US data releases and crash.

No prices from 2.45 until 3.10pm, I thought the servers were being upgraded over the weekend.

Indices prices behind the correct price, greyed out and unavailable to trade, some equities greyed out

cheers, Up and running again

I don't suppose they know when they will be up and running again?

Their website seems to be down too

No connection phone number 0207 747 5222

Yes a severe loss of prices here too. No ftse 100 trading allowed from 15.00 for about 11 minutes. Loss of shares gradually occurred from 3pm. The ftse quote was around 10 points behind and greyed out so trading was unavailable. This morning the FTSE 100 wasn't available to trade until 8.01 and...

I happened to note down the time that the FTSE 100 index was actually available this morning and like Gle101 says it was one and a half minutes late and UK equities were worse at up to 3 minutes. The UK equities prices are slow to show relative to other SB's and when they do they are always...

Hi T_O_C Many thanks for the explanation.

@T_O_C I see that you mention that you like the hedging facility, do you mean that you buy and sell the same instrument at the same time? Is there an advantage to doing this rather than just having one position and closing it rather than opening another trade in the other direction to effective...

Hi SLM Thanks for the info, so maybe good news regarding the margin soon, good to know that you want us to win! Cheers

Hi Paul SLM Many thanks for the reply, any comments regarding the margin requirement for the FTSE 100 please?